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ISBN-10: 1400034205
ISBN-13: 9781400034208
Publisher: Vintage
Publish Date: 09/09/2003
Dimensions: 8.06" L, 5.20" W, 0.68" H

The Razor’s Edge

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Overview

Larry Darrell is a young American in search of the absolute. The progress of this spiritual odyssey involves him with some of Maugham’s most brillant characters – his fiancee Isabel, whose choice between love and wealth have lifelong repercussions, and Elliot Templeton, her uncle, a classic expatriate American snob. The most ambitious of Maugham’s novels, this is also one in which Maugham himself plays a considerable part as he wanders in and out of the story, to observe his characters struggling with their fates.

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"[Maugham is] a great artist . . . a genius." -Theodore Dreiser

"[Maugham's] excessively rare gift of story-telling . . . is almost the equal of imagination itself." -The Sunday Times (London)

"It is very difficult for a writer of my generation, if he is honest, to pretend indifference to the work of Somerset Maugham. . . . He was always so entirely there." -Gore Vidal

"Maugham remains the consummate craftsman. . . . [His writing is] so compact, so economical, so closely motivated, so skillfully written, that it rivets attention from the first page to last." -Saturday Review of Literature

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Details

ISBN-10: 1400034205
ISBN-13: 9781400034208
Publisher: Vintage
Publish Date: 09/09/2003
Dimensions: 8.06" L, 5.20" W, 0.68" H
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